Why does the United States seem so overwhelmed by mental illness and therapy?

[Moirine]

Is it just me or is america the one country that is severely infected with mental illness? People are admitted into psychiatric hospitals and committed to therapies at young tender ages. Mental problems exist everywhere and I've experienced self exists in my family and I have experienced depression and anxiety but america takes it to a whole different level. Literally everyone I know who lives in the americas has had some sort of a mental health problem since they were 8. I don't know if they're able to drown people in other countries because they're loud but what causes this?

[Taranis_Thunor]

American pharma is a massive industry which needs to justify itself in order to provide healthcare.

By diagnosing every mood, personality type and mental condition as a "disorder" or "illness", they get to justify selling you psychiatric drugs through healthcare, even though these drugs often have big consequences.

This has created a culture where everybody in the West, especially America is fixated on being self aware of their psychology. Being ill or having a disorder sounds fatalistic & therefore people can validate their own victimhood rather then self improve, which requires a strong value system.

[Moirine]

It's gotten to a point where people wear mental illness like fashion and make it their personalities and characters and big pharma contributes to it.

[Anonymous]

It's almost entirely leftists.. Not rational thinking people.

[Moirine]

I can totally see how that can be true. Mental illness on that side is rampant.

[Opinion Owner]

Agreed

[Spencer10]

Well the USA has a mostly private health care system. If you are wealthy your health care is first class but if you are less privileged your care will be poor. A system like this allows many people to slip between the cracks and not receive proper care...

[Alex-Snow]

Look at who we have for a president... that alone messes with ones mental health.

[Moirine]

😭 true 💔

[Anonymous]

The tourists who came to the U. S. for the World Cup are apologizing to Americans for their knee-jerk xenophobic reactions because the news in their home countries falsely report the way American culture is. The tourists were surprised to find how friendly and welcoming and intelligent Americans are.

[SeekerOfTruth007]

Poor Genetics. I have schizophrenia and Type 2 Diabetes. Both diseases are caused by a common genetic link. There is honestly not much you can do about it other than take your medication and pray about it.

[Moirine]

It's true and I hear eating healthy or having a balanced diet that could help with illnesses you mentioned is expensive there as well. If they weren't expensive big pharma wouldn't exist.

[Nikki1989]

Because the entire country is full of nutty people. Look at the president and go from there.

It's no wonder I and so many others moved to other countries.

[Moirine]

If my country was like that, I'd move. Getting cancelled and doxed because you refuse to acknowledge a person's laundry list of made up mental illnesses while there are people struggling with real mental health problems.

[LiamJHayden]

The system is setup to reward people with those. Now some people really are afflicted, but many who are treated as such are perfectly capable but lazy and see an opportunity to live for free off the taxpayer..

[Moirine]

Yes this is true, I saw a video of this one woman who claimed to be muslim and everything left leaning followed by a list of mental illnesses and of course at the end of the video she plugged her course.

[exitseven]

Somehow insurance companies accept mental illness as a real thing that they will pay for. As a result everyone's premiums went up.

[Moirine]

Yes they pay for it and I guess to an extent it's good because if you're working and you have a health insurance, you need it to cover things of the sort but the problem for me is when these unemployed people want to extract every cent set aside for people with REAL mental problems like veterans, EMTs etc and if you don't obey, you're bigoted or you're a hater and will definitely get cancelled.

[DirtyOldMan777]

because it's more profitable to treat symptoms than to fix.

[jahaims]

Poor cultural and societal values

[FrodoSkywalker007]

Marxism I guess